Santa Claus is coming to town

[afallenstar]

Who: Secret Santa participants, but also EVERYONE!
Where: Town Hall
When: Evening of day 24
What: Present giving! The Secret Santa reveal, and anyone who wants to have a christmas party is welcome to join too!
Notess: Party style thread guys, so go nuts. No order, everything is chaos, tag to your hearts content, feel free to break off into separate threads, and no spiking the punch! Also I think she's sort of mentioned it to a bunch of people but want to do me some lovely favours and handwave the actual name drawing? I will backtag if people want but it seems a little pointless to thread that out.


There's another message on the network that morning from Anna, just audio again. It's about as garbled as her first one regarding the Secret Santa idea, but for anyone who is listening closely enough they'll make out a few details. Namely this evening, town hall, and bring your presents before she shuts it off.

She's spent the rest of the day trying to do what she can to make the place look nicer. She's hardly got Christmas decorations on tap, but she's done what she can with what she has all the same. There's paper snow flakes up around the place, some of the food from her house placed in bowls to make it more party-appropriate, and it's no fir but she has relocated a small tree from the edge of the woods and placed it in the hall. Barely decorated, not even the right kind of tree, it's the best she can do with the resources she's been given.

Now all there is to do is wait for people to come.

Comments

[manofiron]

It's hard to flirt when he can't see the person he's flirting with. It's never occurred to him that that might be a problem, but now that he's standing here, unable to see Bruce's expression or posture and forced to take clues from his voice, Tony realizes how difficult it is to gauge his reaction, see if he's gone too far. Of course, the appropriate thing to do would be to stop flirting with him entirely, but Tony has always been terrible at doing what he's supposed to do.

"Should we wait a little longer?" He can't help asking, even though he knows he ought to keep his mouth shut before he chases Bruce away. "I mean, you should really be getting the most out of the experience, right? Getting off prematurely might take some of the fun out of it. Is tomorrow better for you? I could wait until tomorrow."

Although now he's envisioning a far sexier scenario for the final part of his gift giving than he'd originally intended. And god, he wishes he knew how to make that happen. Being blind makes it easier to get lost in the mental images, there's nothing else to distract him away from them, and it takes him a moment to realize that Bruce has said something else. Dragging himself away from what was going to be fantasy fodder later, he shakes his head.

"I--Okay, sorry. I got a little distracted. What?"

[greenisnteasy]

Bruce can only laugh, thinking Tony's playing with him again, and he likes that, he does; it's fun, and provided Bruce remembers it's just for fun, then it's harmless. He hasn't flirted or been flirted with in so long without being afraid of the other person getting the wrong idea, but Tony understands, or he ought to, right? And Tony isn't being serious, so there's nothing to worry about here.

"Tonight will do fine," he says warmly, amusement clear in his voice. "Your room, when we get back." Tony's room, so he doesn't have to go anywhere when they're done, and maybe he's less likely to run into anything in his room.